1. Is a child with attention or perception problems also likely to have problems with memory? What specific aspects of poor attention and/or poor perception have the greatest impact on memory?

2. What types of tasks does active working memory allow us to do? (Give some examples). What characteristic behaviors can we observe in children with poor active working memory?

3. Imagine you have a child in your class that you suspect has problems with active working memory. You don't have time to go through the whole process of having the child assessed formally. What 5 informal classroom tasks might you ask a child to do so you could observe and gather information about his active working memory? Explain briefly why each one assesses active working memory.

4. Although we don't know a lot about how knowledge is stored in long term memory, we do know that there are some specific formats that help us store some types of knowledge and that children with LD often have specific problems with these formats. What formats do LD children often have difficulty with? Give 2-3 characteristic behaviors (specific difficulty with academic tasks) that might indicate difficulty with storing knowledge for each format.

5. Children who have short-term memory problems often have difficulty learning to decode words and spell them. Briefly explain the ways in which short-term memory problems affect decoding and spelling.